There are many excellent authorization libraries for Rails, but did you know it's not that hard to build this functionality yourself? In this article, Renata Marques shows us how to use the Policy Object Pattern to implement access control in our Rails apps.
A few weeks ago I saw this message in our internal support channel on Slack, and it made my gears grind. So I stopped to take a look, since the last thing we want is a customer taken advantage of. There are people out there on the internet cheeky enough to freeload off your account, and use up your monthly quotas. What's more: you may not know that it is happening.
Keeping your dependencies up-to-date is essential to ensure that your applications stay healthy, secure, and performant. Thankfully, the BEAM ecosystem has its own package manager, Hex, which is fast, mature, and simple to use. This article explores the available tools and commands to manage Hex dependencies and some tips to make the process more enjoyable. Let's dive in!
In our previous blog posts covering our in-house Security Orchestration, Automation & Response (SOAR) application, we described the basic building blocks for the system and the steps we took to orchestrate interactions between a number of security tools. While building orchestration, we already introduced a significant amount of Automation powering features like threat intelligence collection and event polling.
Has your company faced a ransomware attack yet? If not, count yourself lucky, for now. A June 2021 article in Cybersecurity Ventures predicts that ransomware will cost its victims approximately $265 billion annually by 2031. And, according to CRN, “Victims of the 10 biggest cyber and ransomware attacks of 2021 were hit with ransom demands totaling nearly $320 million.”
